Q1: 21st Century Literary Genres Flashcards
A story or narrative told through words complemented by illustrated images.
Illustrated Novel
50% of the narrative is presented without words while some may not contain any text at all, so the reader must interpret the images to comprehend the story completely.
Illustrated Novels
It is also called Triple Media Literature.
Digi-Fiction
Why is digi-fiction called Triple Media Literature.
It uses the combination of three media: book, movie/video, and internet website.
Narratives told in comic-strip formats and published as a book.
Graphic Novel
It tell a story using a combination of words and pictures in a sequence across the page.
Graphic Novel
Japanese word for comics
Manga
It is used in the English-speaking world
as a generic term for all comic books.
Manga
Graphic novels originally published in Japan.
Manga
Manga-style comics created by American artists.
Ameri-manga
A literary presentation where the author incorporates doodle writing, drawings, and handwritten graphics in place of the traditional font.
Doodle Fiction
Simple drawings or random shapes and lines that may or may not have concrete representational meanings.
Doodles
Stories told almost entirely in dialogue simulating social network exchanges.
Text-Talk Novels
Narratives are usually presented in blog, email, and IM (instant messaging) format.
Text-Talk Novels
An often humorous and lighthearted fiction which addresses issues of modern womanhood.
Chick Lit
Chick Literature
It generally targets young women readers. Stories may include romantic relationships, friendships, and issues in the workplace.
Chick Lit
A story narrated in an extremely brief way, but still offers plot and character development and implies a larger story.
Flash Fiction
Also known as literary nonfiction or narrative nonfiction.
Creative nonfiction
It is a genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives.
Creative nonfiction
As a genre, it is still relatively young and is only beginning to be scrutinized with the same critical analysis given to fiction and poetry.
Creative non-fiction
A genre of speculative fiction dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, a parallel universe and extraterrestrial life.
Science Fiction
Sci-fi
It often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations and has been called a “literature of ideas”.
Science Fiction
Sci-Fi
shortened form of Weblog
blog
A website containing short articles called
posts that are updated regularly.
Blog
Are written by one person containing
his or her own opinions, interests and experiences, while others are written by
different people.
blog
A digital poetry that uses links and hypertext mark-up.
Hyper poetry
It can either involve set words, phrases, lines, etc. that are presented in variable order but sit on the page much as traditional poetry does, or it can contain parts of the poem that move and transform.
Hyper poetry
It is usually found online, but CD-ROM and diskette versions exist. The earliest examples date to no later than the mid 1980s.
Hyper poetry
